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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 29.05.2024
    Semiotic Machines: Artificial Text and the Praxis of Reading
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    Recent discussions about the significance of generative AI technologies, and particularly of Large Language Models like ChatGPT, have tended to revolve around the question of how the new language-generating machines relate to traditionally...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary theory,  Media studies and 4 more
    Created on: 23.05.2024
  2. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 06.06.2024
    European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    When analyzing asymmetries between centers, semi-peripheries, and peripheries, literary scholars draw on various theoretical and methodological traditions, such as post- and decolonial approaches or, as for example the Warwick Research Collective,...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 15 more
    Created on: 22.05.2024
  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 27.09.2023
    What is the Political Novel: Defining the Genre
    Submitted by: Georgia Lummert

    The first annual conference of the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (CAPONEU) discusses a variety of understandings of the political novel as a genre. It probes genre-theoretically and genre-historically informed...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature from UK and Ireland and 14 more
    Created on: 07.09.2023
  4. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 08.11.2022
    Juicy, Wiry, Wrinkled, Kinked: On Touching Language – Experimental Workshop with Sophie Seita
    Submitted by: Anna Luhn

    In this practice-based workshop, we will experiment with various translational techniques of writing and making, swimming in the mucky waters between languages or following the messy movement from one medium or material to another through layers of...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Oral poetry / Orality,  Writtenness and 3 more
    Created on: 04.11.2022
  5. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 14.12.2021
    Materialität von Schriftlichkeit: Zu Stefan Zweigs Autographensammlung – zugleich ein Versuch über die Faszination von Handschriftlichkeit
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Materialität von Schriftlichkeit | Ulrike Vedder: Zu Stefan Zweigs Autographensammlung – zugleich ein Versuch über die Faszination von Handschriftlichkeit Dec 14, 2021 | 06:15 PM Wie bedeutungstragend die materiale Einrichtung...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Writtenness
    Created on: 06.12.2021
  6. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 01.07.2021
    Der volatile Text. Formen, Verfahren und Medien der Unabgeschlossenheit
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Organisation: Sophie König (FU Berlin) und Alexander Weinstock (Hamburg) Mit dem gedruckten Buch als nach wie vor dominanter Verbreitungsform eines literarischen Textes geht für gewöhnlich auch die Vorstellung seiner Abgeschlossenheit...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literary historiography,  Writtenness and 4 more
    Created on: 25.06.2021
  7. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 10.05.2021
    Suzanne Conklin Akbari: What Ground Do We Read On? (Online)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The field of Medieval Studies has undergone a period of reckoning, including a greater awareness of histories of race and racialization, an increasingly fraught relationship of religious and racial identities, and the effects of the ’global turn‘,...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Media studies,  Writtenness and 2 more
    Created on: 10.05.2021